Chapter 79

As Silas, Nyssa, and Kellan leave—no doubt heading toward the cabin where Jessamine now stayed—the silence that fell over the Grimwood Pack House was heavier than any storm. The last fading hum of the engine dissolved into the distance, swallowed by the trees. What lingered behind was a silence filled with ghosts—the kind that pressed on the chest, thick and suffocating.

The late afternoon light d